Juozas Budraitis

Juozas Budraitis (born 6 October 1940) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the Soviet film Wounded Game, which was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. Budraitis also played a minor role in the finale of the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit. Biography Juozas Stanislavas Budraitis was born on 6 October 1940 in the village of Liepynai, Kelmė, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union in a peasant family. In 1945, the family moved to Klaipėda, and in 1955 – to the small town of Švėkšna. In the years 1958-1960, Budraitis worked as a laborer at a training and production plant in Klaipėda. After serving in the army, he entered the law faculty of Vilnius University. During the third year of his studies, he was approved for one of the main roles in the Vytautas Žalakevičius film Nobody Wanted to Die which was released in 1966. Budraitis was already finishing his third year externally and afterwards transferred to the correspondence department. In 1968 he graduated from the university and started working as an actor at the Lithuanian Film Studios. By that time he already became an established actor. From 1968 to 1976 Budraitis was filming in the republic and in films of other Soviet directors. During this period, he starred in the films The Shield and the Sword (1967), Two Comrades Were Serving (1968), The Lanfier Colony (1969), White Dunes (1969), King Lear (1970) Ave Vita (1970), The Rudobel Republic (1971), That Sweet Word: Liberty! (1973), With You and without You ... (1973), Blockade (1974), Time does not Wait (1975), The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce (1976), The Legend of Thiel (1976), The Lost House (1976).